The federal government announced several new aviation security rules Monday, including restrictions involving large office-sized printer toner cartridges, just days after it banned all air cargo originating from Yemen.

VANCOUVER – A young Asian man disguised himself as a white senior to
board a flight into Canada, CNN reported Thursday evening.<p>
The man, who appeared to be in his 20s, wore a head and shoulder mask on the
Air Canada flight to Vancouver, said a Canadian Border Services Agency alert
obtained by CNN.<p>
"Information was received from Air Canada corporate security regarding a
possible impostor on a flight originating from Hong Kong," the news release
said. “"The passenger in question was observed at the beginning of the flight
to be an elderly Caucasian male who appeared to have young-looking hands.”<p>
During the Oct. 29 flight, the man went to the washroom and “emerged an
Asian-looking male that appeared to be in his early 20s."<p>
The man was greeted in Vancouver by border officials when he "proceeded to
make a claim for refugee protection."<p>
Officials found the man’s disguise kit in his luggage, which included a
silicone mask, along with a brown leather cap, glasses and a thin brown
cardigan, the news release said.<p>
“The subject admitted at this time that he had boarded the flight with the
mask on and had removed it several hours later," said the news release, adding
that he used another passenger’s boarding pass.<p>
A CBSA official confirmed to CNN that the man is currently in detention and
will appear before an Immigration and Refugee Board hearing.<p>
An Air Canada spokesman told CNN officials are investigating the incident,
but all passengers went through “multiple identity checks” in Hong Kong.<p>
The man’s name and home country has not been released, but CBSA officials
referred to him as a “foreign national.”

KANDAHAR, AIRFIELD, Afghanistan – The Canadian military’s nearly 10-
year association with its not-so-secret airbase in the United Arab Emirates
ends Wednesday.<p>
After a modest military ceremony at Camp Mirage, the last Canadian flight
from there – a C-130 Hercules transport – will take off bound for Kandahar with
a load of cargo.<p>
The U.A.E. gave the Canadian Forces 30 days to quit Mirage last month. The
sheikdom terminated use of the base after its demand for more landing rights in
Canada for its two national carriers – Emirates Airline and Etihad Airways –
was turned down by the Harper government.<p>
Ottawa objected to linking access to a base used in the war on terror with a
dispute over how often the Emirates’ two long-haul carriers could fly to Canada.<p>
Air Canada and Transport Canada have vehemently opposed granting further
landing rights to Emirates and Etihad, which now each fly three times a week to
Toronto. European carriers have also expressed deep reservations about the
expansion plans of the Gulf carriers, which have more new long-haul aircraft on
order than the rest of the world’s airlines combined.<p>
The Department of Foreign Affairs in Ottawa, which has taken the lead in the
government’s quarrel with the U.A.E., has forbidden the military to speak about
this week’s loss of the airbase. It has been a vital link in the 11,000
kilometre supply and passenger air bridge between Canada and Afghanistan.<p>
Mirage was immensely popular with soldiers because it gave them a chance to
briefly enjoy Dubai’s many extravagant shopping malls while there on way to and
from the war in Afghanistan.<p>
While the loss of Camp Mirage is not expected to affect Canada’s military
operations in Kandahar, it will cost the Department of National Defence tens of
millions of dollars in additional fuel costs to transport soldiers and cargo
through much less conveniently located airports in Cyprus and Germany.<p>
Extra air charters will also have to be booked to remove some of the huge
amounts of military gear back from Afghanistan when the combat mission ends
next summer.<p>
The revised plan for soldiers going on leave or returning home at the end of
their tours is for them to use Cyprus as a transit point. They will be flown
there on the military’s version of the Airbus 310 passenger jet and C-17 jumbo
transports.